[CrackMonkey] Lindsey Graham

Mike Goldman whig at debian.org
Wed Feb 23 15:18:14 PST 2000


Seth David Schoen wrote:

> So, voting isn't voluntary in the usual sense.
>
> The state announces to you (via a civics class or something) its plan to
> coerce you, and gives you an unrealistic opportunity to be coerced less in
> exchange for voting.  In some other analogous situations, we might say
> that whatever corresponded to voting wasn't voluntary, right?

Good point: an explicit or implicit threat of coercion denies volition, as does
actual or constructive fraud.  Nevertheless, if you discover that the coercion is
independent of voting, i.e., uncover the fraud, then you should cease voting or
imply knowing consent.







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